Mary Flood

Democratic Texas AG candidate and former Vinson & Elkin partner Barbara Ann Radnofsky wants Texas, and presumably other states hurt by the Wall Street-induced economic decline of the last two years, to sue Wall Street. This would be a big, bad group of lawsuits like the state lawsuits against tobacco companies were years ago. Those […]
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Disciplinary Actions — June 2010 (verbatim from the State Bar of Texas) General questions regarding attorney discipline should be directed to the Chief Disciplinary Counsel’s Office, toll-free (877) 953-5535 or (512) 453-5535. The Board of Disciplinary Appeals may be reached at (512) 475-1578. Information and copies of actual orders are available at www.txboda.org. The State […]
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Look to Ungagged.net for a plethora of video snippets from “11 relatives of defendants, attorneys, former Enron executives and employees telling their stories about what they witnessed, or experienced personally at the hands of the Enron Task Force.” (Newsart.com) Beth Stier, a videographer and former Enron vendor, organized the site to document “prosecutorially-abusive tactics used […]
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Vinson & Elkins partner T. Mark Kelly is the new Houston Bar Association president. Kelly, 53, has served on the HBA board of directors since 2005 and chaired the Houston Bar Foundation in 2001. Kelly He’s also chaired other committees, programs and fundraising events and is the past president of the Houston Young Lawyers Association. […]
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At the Texas State Bar convention in Fort Worth to be held Thursday and Friday , a bagillion folks will be honored including the Houstonians mentioned below. Thought we’d be nice and let everyone know. Wafa Abdin legal director of Catholic Charities, J. Chrys Dougherty Legal Services Award, presented by the State Bar Legal Services […]
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Disciplinary Actions — May 2010 (verbatim from the State Bar of Texas) General questions regarding attorney discipline should be directed to the Chief Disciplinary Counsel’s Office, toll-free (877) 953-5535 or (512) 453-5535. The Board of Disciplinary Appeals may be reached at (512) 475-1578. Information and copies of actual orders are available at www.txboda.org. The State […]
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Vance’s book by Whitecaps Media Prison preaching, tennis playing, nice guy former prosecutor Carol Vance has written a book about his historic 21 years as Harris County District Attorney. The book had a kind of coming out party last night in the glorious never ending backyard of an astonishingly grand River Oaks home with a […]
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“After the rotisserie chicken guy it’s going to be somebody telling you about their legal services,” Gene Major, the director of advertising review for the Texas State Bar told the Houston chapter of the Legal Marketing Association at a lunch meeting in Houston on Wednesday. If these three need to advertise, you know lawyers do […]
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